Jane McDonald - You Belong to Me

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:09
Size: 116,5 MB
Art: Front

(3:16) 1. Give Me Time
(3:07) 2. Where the Boys Are
(3:28) 3. Little Things Mean a Lot
(2:24) 4. Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss Me
(3:24) 5. (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me
(3:55) 6. It Must Be Him
(3:29) 7. This is My Song
(3:02) 8. Blame It on the Bossa Nova
(2:40) 9. You're Breaking My Heart
(4:06) 10. You Belong to Me
(4:23) 11. I See It in Your Eyes
(4:51) 12. When I Look at You
(4:41) 13. Kiss Me One More Time
(3:17) 14. Behind Closed Doors

Jane rocketed to stardom in 1998 when she first appeared on our screens in the BBC 1 docusoap The Cruise. The series attracted 13 million viewers and Jane McDonald emerged as a star and household name Jane’s first album outsold her nearest rivals by four to one and gained Jane a place in the Guinness Book Of Records. It remained at Number One for three weeks and achieved platinum status staying in the Top 10 for 8 weeks. Each of Jane’s subsequent 4 major albums have all reached gold and silver status. 2009 saw the first album release under her own label. Simply titled ‘Jane’ it entered the Official UK Album Chart at Number 7 and achieved silver status within 6 weeks. Jane has built up a phenomenal theatre audience, performing incredible live concerts across the United Kingdom and Southern Ireland, selling out the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium twice. Jane has also played to a sold out audience at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas. The concert was filmed for DVD and went on to become an instant hit in the charts and the Mayor of Las Vegas presented Jane with the ‘Key To the City’. Jane was a regular panelist on the hit daytime show Loose Women and a regular guest on The Alan Titchmarch Show. Other TV highlights include, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, This Morning, GMTV and The Jonathan Ross Show. In 2015 she performed the coveted role of Grizabella in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS at Blackpool Opera House for which she received rave reviews. Jane puts her heart and soul into her sell out performances, produces her own albums on her own label, was executive producer on her CD/DVD, Live at the London Palladium and works along side her Musical Director on arrangements and recordings. In 2016 she embarked on her ‘Making Memories’ tour which sold out at venues all over the UK. It was so popular she continued touring the show throughout 2017.More.. https://jane-mcdonald.com/bio

You Belong to Me

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Joe Gilman Trio - View So Tender: Wonder Revisited Vol. 2

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2007
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 63:20
Size: 145,9 MB
Art: Front

(6:19) 1. Cryin' Through the Night
(6:52) 2. Whereabouts
(5:50) 3. Knocks Me Off My Feet
(6:05) 4. You and I
(6:49) 5. Contusion
(6:05) 6. Bird of Beauty
(6:02) 7. Easy Goin' Evenin'
(5:18) 8. Another Star
(7:10) 9. Don't Know Why I Love You
(6:45) 10. As If You Read My Mind

Joe Gilman is a young and experienced jazz pianist whose brilliance is unquestioned, and whose taste level is refined within the modern mainstream progressive aesthetic. While never a chart topper of critic's darling, he in fact should be, based on his sheer talent and ability to craft new shapes and sounds out of established pop or jazz material. This second volume of modifications on the music of Stevie Wonder continues Gilman's path of self-discovery and intrigue, turning 14K tunes into solid gold. What distinguishes these alterations is their utter departure from the original melodies, as Gilman makes them his own in no uncertain terms. The two most famous tunes are "You & I" and "Another Star," the former a relatively recognizable deeply romantic ballad, and the latter an unexpected fleet and dynamic hard bop version à la McCoy Tyner. Gilman loves to employ tricky meter switch-ups, in tiptoe time from 7/8 to 5/4 on "Whereabouts," shifting complex and modern 5/4 to simplified and breezy 6/8 during "Knocks Me Off My Feet," and doling out large portions of free time, quirky and playful chunks of light and heavy rhythm changes on the hard bop based "Contusion." Gilman uses bouncy, quaint, and swinging chords opposite the response of bassist Joe Sanders on "Cryin' Through the Night," employs a similar reverberation in reverent, restrained, and heavier chord definitions or contours during "Easy Goin' Evening," and straightens the course during a samba infused "Bird of Beauty." Drummer Justin Brown is up to the task on all of these adaptations, steadily navigating the cleverest rhythms during the long spirit song "Don't Know Why I Love You," and establishing a contemporary loping bluesy pace à la Vernell Fournier of Ahmad Jamal's bands for "As If You Read My Mind." This is a solid effort that proudly stands alongside the first volume of Gilman's previous tribute to Motown's pop icon, as well as the pianist's 2003 tribute to Dave Brubeck. It is also one of the better jazz recordings of 2008, well worth your while whether you are a piano fan, neo-bop lover, or enjoy your pop music with an energized, direct, straight-ahead infusion. ~ Michael G.Nastos https://www.allmusic.com/album/view-so-tender-wonder-revisited-vol-2-mw0000581268

Personnel: Piano – Joe Gilman; Bass – Joe Sanders; Drums – Justin Brown

View So Tender: Wonder Revisited Vol. 2

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Diane Schuur - The Best of Diane Schuur

Styles: Vocal
Year: 1997
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:36
Size: 128,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:08) 1. All Right, OK, You Win (I'm In Love With You)
(4:29) 2. Try A Little Tenderness
(3:47) 3. Them There Eyes
(4:00) 4. Sunday Kind Of Love
(5:12) 5. Speak Low
(2:19) 6. Deed I Do
(5:14) 7. At Last
(5:43) 8. A Time For Love
(3:05) 9. Blue Gardenia
(5:22) 10. New York State Of Mind
(6:36) 11. 'Round Midnight
(3:04) 12. Stormy Monday Blues
(3:31) 13. Deedles' Blues - Live

Big band, big sound, big brass, big voice-"All Right, OK, You Win, (I'm in Love with You)." Smaller band, but voice still big and way up front: "Try a Little Tenderness." The Best of Diane Schuur shows off the singer's large charms as first displayed on nine GRP discs. She sings beautifully up and down in her range she can pierce your heart with that huge wail (as on "Try a Little Tenderness") and then meet the Diana Krall types on their own turf in numbers like "Them There Eyes" (although she takes it much farther up and out than Diana tends to go). If you're looking for a great contemporary jazz singer, and haven't heard Schuur, pick this up. Otherwise the source albums are a better buy, for she never drops off much in quality: There's B.B. King, in duet on "Try a Little Tenderness," and the whole album Diane Schuur and B.B. King Heart to Heart. Schuur is a fine match for the legend, but I would quibble with the way the duet is organized: the title's admonition, originally advice to a third party, becomes Schuur's admonition to B.B. It sounds whiny, and whiny Schuur ain't. The other turn with King on this record, "At Last," works somewhat better. In any case, the objection seems extra-musical it sounds wonderful.

"Sunday Kind of Love" is enlivened by a terrific trumpet solo by-whom? The disc says, "Jack Sheldon, Wayne Bergeron-trumpets." Great; one of them is first-rate. To "Speak Low," Tom Scott brings his tenor, which is just fine, and his strings, which are perhaps just a trifle much. The tune's "Ipanema-ville" guitar would do nicely on its own, thank you. And thank a certain Dori Caymmi. Joe Williams brings his somewhat bigger name to "Deed I Do" (What can be said about Joe Williams?). It is high praise for Schuur that she is by no means outgunned in this duet. And who's that with the tenor saxophone break that harks back to classic pulse-stoppers like John Coltrane's entrance on "Freddie Freeloader"? Well, it could be Fred Jackson, Ernie Fields, Joel C. Peskin, or Jack Nimitz. At least there's no mistaking Mr. Stan Getz on the gossamer "A Time for Love," where Jeremy Lubbock's orchestral arrangement is not earth-shattering, but meshes nicely with Getz's buttery-smooth tone. This is Getz in 1986, from the disc Timeless. Has there ever been a plusher sound? I just wish they'd thought of a better ending than the ghastly falsetto chant here. Then there a big band "Round Midnight." Here her touch is more delicate than usual, and she comes up with a real new contribution to this well-covered item. "Stormy Monday" storms along in Schuur's more accustomed fashion, and "Deedles' Blues" shows off the Count Basie Orchestra. They can still kick, and Schuur sounds right out of 1958. Atomic Basie, Atomic Schuur. It's a Best of, sure, so it's understandable that there would be no weak cuts. Still, with Diane Schuur's voice, weak cuts would be hard to find. ~ Robert Spencer https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-best-of-diane-schuur-diane-schuur-grp-records-review-by-robert-spencer.php

The Best of Diane Schuur

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